Library Review: Volume 51 Issue 3/4

New information management opportunities in a changing world

Charlotte Breen, Ailish Farragher, Mairead McQuaid, Michelle Callanan, Mary A. Burke

Evaluates gap between traditional library and LIS and needs of the IT workplace. Includes literature review of characteristics which knowledge and information managers need in the…

The status of information society studies in the information science curriculum

Alistair S. Duff

Argues for a central role for information society studies in degree programmes. Information society studies is an interdisciplinary specialism devoted to examination of the…

LIS meets the EIP

Jette Hyldegaard, Haakon Lund, Piet Seiden

To meet a perceived need for information professionals engaging in projects on document and knowledge management, a new course on enterprise information portals (EIP) and…

Educating information professionals in a multicultural information society

Kerstin Jorna

LIS departments in English speaking countries frequently neglect the study of foreign languages. Argues that this is short‐sighted. Information professionals will be increasingly…

Cross‐country partnerships in European library and information science: education at the crossroads

Leif Kajberg

Formal and informal links between LIS schools in Europe exist. The EU’s SOCRATES programme, the NORDPLUS scheme, and professional bodies offer frameworks for communication as well…

Rhetoric and realism: young user reactions on the Linköping fire and its consequences for education and democracy

Maj Klasson

Studies young user reactions to the 1996 Linköping library fire which destroyed buildings and 150,000 books, and its consequences for education and democracy. Young people from…

Educating LIS students in cultural history

Niels D. Lund

The paper deals with questions about the historical dimension of the library and information studies (LIS) education seen from a Danish point of view and the perspective of…

Information management in the Baltic, Nordic, and UK LIS schools

Elena Maceviciute

The aim of this paper is to analyse information management study programmes and courses given at the Nordic, Baltic, and British library and information studies schools, and also…

Health informatics education – working across the professional boundaries

Andrew Pearson, Christine Urquhart

Examines requirements of information professionals in the health sector, and ways career development can be enhanced. Includes analysis of job descriptions, categorising skills…

Libraries and society – the macrostructural aspect of library and information studies

Magnus Torstensson

Raises the question of how education and research within the field of librarianship should be organized, which role should/could the study and research within the perspective of…